As we all know, food prices continue to rise almost daily. Also since there has been so much flooding this spring especially in the states that most of our food is raised in I can’t see anything but higher prices for the foreseeable future.
So I thought to help us all save some money and to help everyone stop throwing out perfectly good foods, that I would offer up some tips for keeping food better, tricks for using a few stale items up, tips for renewing some foods after they get stale and bust some myths folks believe about certain foods that make them think they should throw away food that is completely fine to consume. So here we go.
What are the 12 Foods to Never Throw Away Again?
1. Cookies, chips, crackers, pretzels, cereal, bread crumbs or anything else like this that is a dry and should be crisp food.
When this type of food gets stale or if there is a lot of humidity they can lose their crispness. While none of these are very tasty without their crunch you do not have to throw them out. Just get a sheet pan out and spread the stale item in a single layer on the sheet pan and put in a 180 degree oven for around 15 minutes.
Check for crispness and if it isn’t crisp yet leave and check in 5 minute intervals until crispness has returned. Now not only did you not throw food out but you have perfectly crisp foods back in the cupboard. If you live in a humid climate and your oven has a pilot light you can use the oven almost like a cabinet for this type of food. That little pilot light will keep the humidity out of your foods. Just remember to remove the items before using the oven.
2. Parmesan
When you buy a chuck of Parmesan for a recipe don’t leave the remainder of the chunk in the fridge, chances are it will mold before you need it again and it will be thrown out.
Put your Parmesan chunk in a zip lock freezer bag and keep in in the freezer. When you need some you can just take it out and grate off the amount you need. It grates really well frozen and the grated thaws almost as fast as you grate it so you don’t have to wait to use it. This way you never need to throw away old Parmesan again.
3. Butter
Butter when kept n the fridge can pick up all sorts of odd flavors from the other foods that you have in there. The best way to keep butter is take one stick at a time out of the box for the fridge or your butter bell and keep the rest in a Freezer bag in the freezer.
The freezer bag…